FLYING PREMIER

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1931, Page 10

FLYING PREMIER

EXHILARATION AND REST

MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD

(From "Tho Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 7th August. Mr. Ramsay MauDonald finds tlic acroplano invaluable in these days of political stress. lie flew to Berlin a few days ago for a momentous meeting with German statesmen, arriving there in .'i few hours, while his less up-to-date colleague, tho Foreign Secretary, elected to travel by train and bout. The conversations over, Mr. MiicDonald rushed back to England at two miles ii minute to resume work at Downing Street, and I hen lie Hew north I to his beloved Lossiemouth, where he is expected to spend niost of his timo before tlio Indian Hound Table Conference. Mr. Mac Donald not only likes the time saved in air travel; ho appreciates the exhilaration of moving through a pure atmosphere, and every air journey he makes is an interlude in a busy and intensely worrying life. He usually contrives to read through an entire novel 011 tho way, as well as .spending much timo following the country winding out below liko a "strip" map. Generally he Hies in a Fairey OF biplane of the Royal Air Force, steered by Flight-Lieutenant Ileslop. His latest journey to his homo in Lossiemonth, more than 500 miles from London, was accomplished in quick time in spito of a sea fog which obliged a return to Cramlington, in Northumberland, for lunch. On arriving at Lossiemouth in time for tea the Prime Minister said ho had had a most delightful flight, having covered in a few hours .since breakfast a journey over which the train takes a day and a night.